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Once you throw away information, you can't get it back. Put the beautiful commit message into the merge commit if you must have it; I never find myself bothering. The "clutter" you mention is really a non-issue; git has powerful tools to browse/search history.

If you are like me, your topic branches are always rebased onto master frequently, and so when you merge into master you get a "fast-forward" commit: master (the pointer to the trunk of your tree) just suddenly points to the same commit as the branch you merged, and no new commit object is created.

This can be a little bit annoying, because there is no way to tell that the last $N commits were all merged from a branch and belong together as a set, and that the real previous state of your trunk (for certain p

--J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers